2- Infrastructure Archives

577: In this interview, Janet Sherlock, Chief Information Officer of Ralph Lauren, explains her purview as CIO and how the company’s Flexible Work Arrangement and virtual stores put the company in a stronger position going into the COVID-19 Pandemic. Janet debriefs some of the learnings and silver linings from the pandemic, specifically on how it accelerated a streamlining of processes; why those changes won’t go away any time soon; and how ingenuity, innovation, architecture, and agility are key to Ralph Lauren’s continued success. She emphasizes Ralph Lauren’s strategic focus on experience, data, and automation. Finally, we discuss lessons on recruiting for board-level positions, balancing her doctoral candidacy with career and family, and trends that she is looking forward to.

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495: ADP Corporate Vice President and Chief Product and Technology Officer Don Weinstein

ADP’s history as one of the earliest cloud companies
Why the company has shifted from embracing the private cloud to the public cloud.
The innovation labs the company has created
How the larger ADP organization draws new practices from the innovation labs
Why one of the hardest challenges that any organization has is not identifying new ideas that have promise, but cancelling the ones that do not show value.
How a partial reopening of offices could negatively impact productivity and agile methodologies
Some of ADP’s efforts around diversity and inclusion
How artificial intelligence algorithms can actually reinforce historical bias

Among a variety of other topics.

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Verizon Global CIO Shankar Arumugavelu discusses

His role as the Global CIO of Verizon
The five questions embedded in the company’s IT strategy, and the company’s approach to change management
How the company transitioned to a remote workforce
The framework the company developed to guide it through the pandemic
Shankar’s front row seat in Verizon’s technological evolutions over the past 20+ years
The three prongs to the company’s 5G strategy
How the company uses AI

Among a variety of other topics.

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485: Ally Chief Information Data and Digital Officer Sathish Muthukrishnan discusses

Sathish’s three-pillared IT strategy, which is focused on driving customer value, creating a compelling financial trajectory for all its shareholders and investors, and executing that through great culture
The company’s transition to a mobile workforce due to the pandemic
Sathish’s experience being onboarded largely in quarantine
The approach Sathish used to create his data strategy
What he has learned from his prior experiences as CIO

Among a variety of other topics.

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484: Lenovo CISO Jason Ruger discusses:

How Jason has navigated working with three variations of the same company
How Lenovo operates as a global firm
The pandemic’s impact on the company
How the fact that Lenovo has a major manufacturing operation in Wuhan, China led to early warnings as to the issues that arose related to COVID-19
How the pandemic has led to a 3x increase in cyber attacks and the methods Jason and his team have undertaken to counteract them
Jason’s CIO and CISO responsibilities and how he segments his thoughts processes related to each

Among a variety of other topics.

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483: NetApp CIO Bill Miller discusses

Bill’s purview as the CIO of NetApp
How the company works with external partners to build capabilities
How the company acts as an internal first user
The Cloud One Platform and The DevOps framework the company has built
How the company works with external partners to build capabilities
Bill’s view on how COVID-19 will impact the world in the long term
The importance of CIOs getting advantages out of data
The biggest threats to CIOs today

Among a variety of other topics.

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481: Marstercard President of Operations & Technology Ed McLaughlin discusses

How Ed balances innovation with risk mitigation
How security can be used as a strategic weapon
Ed’s thoughts on the current pandemic, including how it will result in a permanent shift in certain behaviors
Why bold pronouncements about the future of work can’t be made just yet.
Ed’s view on blockchain
Mastercard’s lab group, whose job is to investigate new technologies

Among a variety of other topics.

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476: Unqork CEO Gary Hoberman discusses:

An overview of no code
Why Gary left the CIO rank
Why the metrics that gauge success or lack thereof for IT departments are flawed
How companies need to reward their technologists based on the value they achieve, rather than being on time and on budget
Why Gary believes that you can always improve a big company,
Advice Gary has for others looking to leave large companies and start their own
Some of the groundbreaking things Unqork has done with large enterprises

Among a variety of other topics.

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475: Commonwealth Bank of Australia CIO Pascal Boillat discusses:

Pascal’s 6-pillared IT strategy
Advantages Pascal gains having technology and operations disciplines under his purview
Some of the innovation efforts Commonwealth Bank is undergoing.
Why working remotely due to COVID-19 was even more of a transition for Australians than other parts of the world
The tech landscape in Australia
How the company works with other FinTechs
Pascal’s take on quantum computing, AI, and the cloud

Among a variety of other topics.

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